11th Conference of the States Parties to CRPD, June 12, 12:30 pm — 1:45 pm UN Headquarters Conference Room 12, New York, NY 10017 Despite recent advances in assistive technology and inclusive planning, people with disabilities and older persons continue to face economic, physical, and political discrimination and exclusion. Social and physical barriers too often prevent people with disabilities and older persons from fully enjoying their rights to employment, education, health, and independence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one avenue that could help break down the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from …More

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By, Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda City leaders, IT managers, and entrepreneurs that embrace Smart City solutions care about ICT, not for its own sake, but instead for the ways these solutions can help governments, communities, and enterprises achieve better results. That was the message I kept hearing during a series of roundtables I facilitated with my colleague James Thurston of G3ict. Whatever these specific objectives of a city may be, it was clear that they would fall short if they systematically fail to include large segments of a city’s …More

Upon completing the intensive negotiations that shaped the New Urban Agenda, I realized that we, persons with disabilities and our allies, have a tremendous responsibility to lend our talents to the building of smarter and more accessible cities. Eight months ago, there was only one reference to persons with disabilities in the draft outcome document, and by the day it was launched in Quito, Ecuador, we had secured 15 references to persons with disabilities, including a standalone paragraph. States commit to promote appropriate measures in cities and human settlements that: …More

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